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Ummm, that’s a Problem

by Josh Marshall
05.06.11 | 11:01 am

Turns out that once you take Medicare Phase-Out out of the Ryan Plan, it doesn’t even balance the budget. And that’s even if you make the highly dubious assumption that his big new upper income tax cuts don’t reduce revenue.

Seems worth noting, no?

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